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Thinking this

Attribution https://www.instagram.com/p/DTY5qn3D9N3/

There's a 3d option available:

Ps everyone should go watch centaurworld. It's a masterpiece.

I don't like it. But it's probably #2. Centaurs replace the neck of the base animal with a human torso.

You have to have the long neck, or it's not a giraffe man thing

Edit: A giraftaur

False dichotomy.

Centraur is when the neck of an quadruped animal gets its neck replaced by an human upper body... So the giraffe centaur would have neither a long human stomach, nor a long human neck.

It is reductionism to say that something isn't a giraffe, if it doesn't have a long neck part. Shame on you! 😉

Do giraffes have long necks, or long torsos?

Yeah, the first one obviously.

A centaur has explicitly horse features until a certain point, then explicitly human features from that point onwards.

That would mean the upper part not being allowed to divert back to horseness/giraffiness, as the left pic does.

Number 2 would fall over.

Right now a giraffe needs 600lbs of neck muscle to hold up a 50 lb head on a 6 foot lever.

There is no way the giraffe's neck could hold a regular human torso. Forget a proportional one. It's not possible.

Picture for scale. A regular human torso would look comically small on top of a giraffe.

centaur have human shoulders and neck and head. And horse body without neck&head

so the first one is right, except with human neck

Giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae as you and me, the bones are just much longer.

An actual giraffe centaur with human torso from the animal's chest up would just be a long-legged spotty horse centaur.

My wife and I frequently bond over a mutual hatred of giraffes. I think this meme just got me laid tonight

No.

It's posts like this that just reinforce the idea that centaurs are freaky creatures.

Why a six-limbed creature? Actual mammals have at most 4 limbs. What does it eat? Is the stomach a horse stomach or a human stomach? Does the human head have to eat 15 kilograms of grass per day, munching it inefficiently with its human teeth? Can it just blend it up and drink vast quantities of smoothies instead? Are the centaur's front limbs massively strong, unlike a horse, because it has to support a whole secondary torso right at the front of its body? Does the whole body have the same notoriously finnicky immune system and fragility of a horse? Where's the heart, is it in the human chest or the horse chest? If it is running hard will it be the human chest that's panting, using those tiny lungs to power an entire body? Or is there just an air tube down through the useless human chest all the way to the horse's mighty lungs? If the lungs being used are the horse ones, what's all that room in the human chest being used for?

Neck has to be long. if torso is long that's biologically impossible you die of low blood pressure to the head

Why would the giraffe have a 6 foot torso?

The first one. The second one is way too top heavy to be practical.

related, what would a human-human centaur look like?

This is actually so tricky. My instinct said "right hand side would be impractical, so no way" but then I remembered they evolved long necks to get to food so it makes sense to evolve arms there to better feed themselves.

Edit: Ah, but it seems I haven't paid enough attention to the illustration. Centaur on the right actually has a mega torso as it's neck, which renders cope #2 as obsolete.

Well, I find it hard to believe that the centiraffe would be forced to waste resources on growing a mega ribcage and mega long sternum like that. Also, it's kind of just not "in the spirit of the game" - no longer does he resemble a giraffe, whose defining feature is the mega neck, but now he resembles just a very tall centaur. Horses are not short giraffes.

Still going with option A.

the first, obviously

And what if they wear pants?

Asking the real questions.